The current docker-compose implementation is wrong, here my small tweak

[agarzon-orangerine]

Mounting mongo volume in that way makes the files to be created with high privilegies so the files does not belong to the user, Which makes it almost impossible to restart the services if you are not root to delete the mongodb folder.

Also, having to pass the env files via CLI is not a good approach, by default docker compose always reads from .env files located at the root. So I rather pass the env_files in the stack and not by CLI (this can be even better if just save the .env file in the root folder.

Anyways, this works for me, I don't have to deal with permissions errors neither with long CLI to manage the stack. Only use this all known command and good to go.

docker-compose up -d

version: "3"

services:
  mongo:
    container_name: mongo
    image: mongo:latest
    restart: always
    env_file:
      - ./config/config.env
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:${MONGODB_PORT:-27017}:${MONGODB_PORT:-27017}
    volumes:
      - mongodb:/data/db
    # TODO: add auth

  chatgpt_telegram_bot:
    container_name: chatgpt_telegram_bot
    command: python3 bot/bot.py
    restart: always
    env_file:
      - ./config/config.env
    build:
      context: "."
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    depends_on:
      - mongo

  mongo_express:
    container_name: mongo-express
    image: mongo-express:latest
    restart: always
    env_file:
      - ./config/config.env
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:${MONGO_EXPRESS_PORT:-8081}:${MONGO_EXPRESS_PORT:-8081}
    environment:
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER=mongo
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_PORT=${MONGODB_PORT:-27017}
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ENABLE_ADMIN=false
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_AUTH_DATABASE=chatgpt_telegram_bot
      - ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_USERNAME=${MONGO_EXPRESS_USERNAME:-username}
      - ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_PASSWORD=${MONGO_EXPRESS_PASSWORD:-password}
    depends_on:
      - mongo
volumes:
  mongodb:

[agarzon-orangerine]

Note I did not made a PR cause I noticed a long list of good and descent PR there which are being basically ignored, this tool has good potential tho.

[hvanmegen]

yeah it's a shame that he's only in it for the money and not willing to listen to ideas to actually improve it..